Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds

[W. Trevor King]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:49:53AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:29 AM, W. Trevor King <wking@×××××××.us> wrote:
> > What about a <list> entry in metadata.xml that points people to
> > the suggested mailing list for discussing a package?  Bugzilla
> > could automatically add the list to its CC list, and both devs and
> > non-devs could join the list without adding a lot of email
> > addresses to the tree.
>
> Yeah, I was thinking about something like an automatic per-package
> email list or something like that, but I'm not sure how much use it
> would get, and it would of course fragment discussions all over the
> place.

The benefit to a <list> entry is that it doesn't need to be
per-package.  Everything currently in the python herd could be pushed
to gentoo-python@.  If the folks running that list thing
dev-python/somepackage is too noisy, they can kick them off, and make
them spin up their own list.

Cheers,
Trevor

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